You won’t taste ecstasy as long as you are sober.
You won’t know the soul if you stay in your body.
You will never reach the Truth
if you are not annihilated
like fire and water mixed together
on the way to the Beloved’s Love.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 450.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (ApprxPubSpring2024), Rubai 1083, Volume 3.
I am not Me.
And, if I were to become Me for even a moment,
I would crush this world to pieces.
If I were to merge with the One who took my heart,
if I were to become Him,
like a tree, I would uproot myself from this world.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 486.
The Rubailer of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.spring2024) Volume 3, Rubai 1081.
There is a spark and warmth from Your Love
in everyone’s heart.
Your trace, the tears of Your longing
are in every prayer niche and alter.
I need a long night and beautiful moonlight to tell You
about all my troubles and sufferings caused by Love.
Rubailar (2016), Rubai 3, page 432.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pubsummer2024), Rubai 1084, Volume 3.
Leave to others the endless job
of the improvement of this Earth.
This whole world
is worth less than a ruined caravanserai,*
less than a small coin,
less even than a grain of barley.
*A roadside inn along a caravan route.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 441.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (pubwinter2024), Rubai 1079, Volume 3.
When Absence adds Soul to your soul,
you will get morsels from Absence,
and you will chew them with pleasure.
Neither kitchen nor cook will appear.
But, plate after plate of sweets will be served to you.
The Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 455.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (ApprxPubWinter2024), Rubai 1067, Volume 3.
My life has become nothing but longing.
O Beloved, what beauty, what charm is that?
I don’t clap my hands unless You are the musician.
I don’t drink wine unless You are the cupbearer.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 490.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (ApprxPubWinter2024), Rubai 1057, Volume 3.
One day, your heart will take you
to the One who has caught your heart.
One day, your soul will take you to the Beloved.
Don’t let go of the hem of the robe of your pain.
One day, your pain will take you to the remedy.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 494
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 1056, Volume 2.
I am the wind. You are a leaf.
When I blow, how could you remain still?
If I give you an order, how could you ignore it?
Since I have thrown a stone and broken your jar,
aren’t you worth hundreds of oceans, hundreds of pearls?
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 484.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Rubai 1036, Volume 3.
If you turn around Saturn,
you become Saturn.
If you turn around a saint, you become a saint.
If you turn around the mine of Truth, you become a ruby.
If you turn around the Beloved,
you become the Essence of Love.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 481.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, the Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 1031, Volume 2.
Sometimes You rip the curtain.
Sometimes You repair it.
Sometimes You get along with me.
Sometimes You break me apart and burn me.
I am learning about youth in my old age.
O people of the world, I can advise you about old age.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 481.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (approx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 1030, Volume 3.